Payments Made to Doctors by Pharmaceutical Companies

One
of the more powerful techniques used by pharmaceutical
companies is paying doctors to
promote for them. The types of services these doctors
provide for their pay come under general
categories such as speaker compensation,
professional education, professional advising,
consulting and hororaria (payments for services for
which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set).

Below
is a form created by the
public service group
ProPublica and has been
taken (with permission) from
their website:
http://Propublica.org.
Complete information on drug
company payments to doctors
can be found in the section
entitled, "Dollars for
Docs".
http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

The
data below come directly
from the disclosure web
sites of 7 pharmaceutical
companies. More than 70
other drug companies have
yet to disclose similar
payments. Receiving payments
does not mean that a health
professional has done
anything wrong.
Read more about the data and
its limitations.